Wichita State University
Events & Deadlines
Submit Proposals to Present at the Great Plains Honors Council conference by January 23
Submissions for GPHC 2023 are due Monday, January 23rd. The conference will be held March 10-12th, 2023, in Wichita Falls, Texas on the campus of Midwestern State University. Poster presentations will be held Friday
March 10th and oral presentations will be held on Saturday, March 11th. Both the Dennis
Boe paper and John Britt poster awards will be awarded this year as well. And there
are a number of exciting excursions planned. Registration will be $125 per student.
Cohen Honors students accepted to present will be awarded a Cohen Enhancement Scholarship
or stipend to cover their registration and travel costs.
Visit the conference website and submit your proposal today: https://msutexas.edu/academics/honors/gphc-2023/gphc-home.php
If you have any questions, please contact Steve Garrison, at steve.garrison@msutexas.edu or 940-397-4978.
Calling All Seniors! Apply for the Outstanding Cohen Honors Student Award
Apply to the 2023 Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol
The Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol event is an opportunity for students to present their research experiences virtually to state lawmakers, Board of Regents members, and the WSU community on March 1st, 2023.
Up to 40 students participate each year representing each of the state’s eight public
four-year institutions. Projects from a broad range of disciplines are encouraged,
especially those that relate to the state of Kansas and issues important to the State
Legislature (e.g. education, health, agriculture, aviation, biotechnology, energy,
transportation, manufacturing, environment, and social services).
Up to five projects will be selected from each institution, and students working on
the same research project are encouraged to apply as a group.
Click Here for more information and to apply. Applications due by January 31st.
News & Information
Still looking for an Honors course for spring? Try philosophy!
These courses still have seats available.
PHIL 355 Minds and Machines - Honors
HYB 2:00pm-3:15pm Fiske Hall 209
Dr. Susan Sterrett susan.sterrett@wichita.edu
General education humanities course. People have constructed machines designed to imitate living creatures in some way long before there were electronic computers. When is a machine’s behavior appropriately called "intelligent?" Must it be capable of using a language? Must a machine be capable of learning in order to be regarded as intelligent? Must it be able to communicate with humans? What criteria are appropriate for judging that an animal's behavior is intelligent; should the same criteria be used for machine intelligence? What lessons about machine intelligence should be taken from debates over recent studies of intelligence in animals with nervous systems very different from humans (e.g., corvids, cephalopods)? Students consider these and other, related questions. Course takes a historical and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on works in philosophy, literature, science and history of science.
PHIL 315H Late Modern Philosophy - Honors (3)
TCI 9:30-10:45 TR Fiske Hall 209
Dr. Susan Castro susan.castro@wichita.edu
General education humanities course. Studies philosophical thought in the 18th century with selections from philosophers such as Berkeley, Hume, Reid, Adam Smith, Butler, Hutcheson, Wolff and Kant, and movements such as empiricism, rationalism, the Scottish common sense school, and idealism.
Honors Outcomes Pilot and Other Faculty Resources
A group of faculty met throughout academic year 2020-21 to develop an initial set of Honors outcomes and a rubric based on the student-written college charter, AAC&U VALUE rubrics, and feedback from students, faculty, and alumni. We’d like faculty to try to incorporate at least two outcomes total from two different pillars and let us know how they work for your course. At the end of the year, you’ll be invited to give feedback on the outcomes and the extent to which they worked in your course.
For a faculty resource handbook visit the Resources for Faculty in Honors page on our website.
Honors Calender